All this is pointless, really. I'm quite sure that someday soon Australia will fall off the bottom of the earth and cease to be an issue or concern....
Do wallabies produce more methane than cows, or do wallabies produce more methane than cows per capita? That's quite a huge factor you left out of your statistics
@aluisious I have no health issues and I'm a really active person, I run every two days and the rest of the days I lift weight and I'm vegan, and belive me, I don't look like a famine victim hehehe, and I live in Chile where you can't find so easily vegan stuff. Look up for Robert Cheeke and you'll see ;)
Man made global warming is a myth. A sham created to enforce carbon taxes. The earth's atmosphere has literally had a 1000 times more carbon dioxide in it then it does now and yet it still had an ice age. The SUN!!! is what determines the warming or cooling of the planet. Don't be a shill of the globalists. Since your in Australia why don't you ask how there carbon tax went over?
@Rationalist411 You can crack jokes all you want but the truth is the truth. Whether you see it now or 20 years from now when you are a slave to the government paying all your money to carbon and V.A.T. tax. But you don't have to wait 20 years just look up 911 truth or the fast and furious scandel or the new Iran b.s. Your already on youtube so just look them up I personally like 911 snow towers cause its a very simple demonstration of Physics. Then try "American Dream". See the truth.
@hempseed57 Yeah... While you're at it, look up illuminati, masons, knights templar, the protocols of the elders of zion, alien abductions, holocaust denial, loch-ness, and most importantly the Reptilians! The truth is out there! And it's all very easy to understand.. that's how you know it's the truth! All this complicated science talk and so-called peer-reviewed literature by so-called experts is just BS made-up to hide the truth.. that's why its so complex no-ne can understand it!
I like the channel, but I think the boxing kangaroos are probably one of the highlights here, you should put boxing kangaroos every month or so in a random video just to see if anyone notices the awesomeness
Metabolic and ecological diagrams are really complicated - a different level of science. It's nice to see a chemist standing in awe of them. But for goodness' sake, let's not eat wallabies!
@periodicvideos We (your captive audience) trust that your research into this subject paper was purely scientific and not at all biased by this subset of cuteness within the animal kingdom.
Yours turly,
Mr. Peers Review
P.S. We eagerly anticipate your future videos on the effect of wuv on fwuffy bunnies. Smooochies! xx
Don't forget that for all the methane that the poor cows are being tut-tutted about, they are still entirely carbon-neutral (unlike cars). The methane has come from the biomass in the grass, which in turn has come from carbon dioxide in the air via photosynthesis. All part of the carbon cycle. Hmmm hang on though- methane is a worse greenhouse gas than CO2.. Bloody cows!!
Please don't do anything to the cows digestive tracts. Our food is already messed up enough. The real problem is we are consuming way more meat than we're supposed to or need to, and that alone is causing a pile of economic and social problems around the world.
Wallabies produce less methane than cows, people are eating more meat so that means more cows which means more methane. Solution: people should eat wallabies instead of cows.
@boldger13 Actually he means 5 to 1 by the amount of feed taken in not 5 wallabies make the methane of 1 cow but 1 pound of grass taken in by a wallabie in makes 1/5th of what a cow would make out of it.
@wpaxton But then wallabies are much smaller in size, which means to produce the same amount of meat you would need a lot of wallabies which would mean that the total amount of methane produced for the same amount of meat would be higher if you ate wallaby instead of cow.
@wpaxton Wouldnt really help cuz we would need about 50 times more wallabies then cows in order to have enough meat to actually sell An besides who can eat a cut little wallaby
I believe science should respect nature more than it does, judging mother earth's wisdom as bad, on how she stablished equilibrium in the biosphere must be a mistake. Just because we unbalance this delicate world with our lack of common sense and our desire for an easy life with comodities and pleasures, we shouldn't think we can fix it by hacking life forms like this. I think every mistake we make is like every bit of entrophy created: it cannot be reversed.
@kemirockarfett Just about everything Monckton has claimed has been very very thoroughly debunked by Potholer54 and many other reputable YouTubers and scientists, hailing his name around a science oriented channel like this one is a dangerous thing to be doing.
@godulous yes and everybody is very very agreed on that CO2 tax to Rockefeller and Rotshild Exchange and deindustrialisation is not the road to follow even if you very left wing extremist wants a Pol Pot regime in a new era.
@kemirockarfett Why would you want someone who makes a living spouting lie after lie as president?
President of what by the way? This is an English youtube channel after all.
And yes, while I agree CO2 taxes are a stupid thing (they wont have any effect on pollution and are only intended to make the government even more money) there is no such thing as a "climate scam".
Farmers produce more cows than they used to because they can sell more of them. If each minute one cow is in existence is a cow-minute, there are more cow-minutes now then there used to be.
I was wondering that since the bacteria and the cow live symbiotically, whether perhaps they have co-evolved together and that perhaps there may be factors un known yet which may mean that the cows can only use their bacteria to digest grass and hence reject the wallaby derived bacteria. Does anyone have an answer to this hypothesis?
...imagine floating on your sail boat smoking a spliff over the Bermuda triangle when a hydrate nodual sublimes and out gases
~or doing the same thing in your blimp when a volcanic eruption out-gasses all kinds of green house gasses,
=if only they could tax that and the cosmic rays induction heating & invest the proceeds into environment study & survival adaptability and not the carbon exchange :)
So you want to modify cows in order to modify Earth’s climate? Are you INSANE! The Earth’s climate is continuously changing and modifying cows to change the weather is ludicrous. This planet and Human Beings will survive, without “IRRATIONAL MODIFICATIONS”! So get a grip on LOGIC and stick to useful science...
@TORREY333 You do realize that the domestication of cows into animal we all know and love today is a modification in and of itself, don't you. Selectively breeding cows in such a way that would prevent them from using methane in such an inefficient and wasteful manner that pollutes our environment is anything but a useless application of science. When rainforests are chopped down, do you say "mother nature always finds a way to survive" or would you support replanting and recycling?
@eagles980 I believe Human Beings should be good stewards of the planet, but I DO NOT believe we can enhance nature in this period of are evolution! Those who believe that they can CONTROL nature through modifying cows are either naive or insane. Because they are NOT looking realistically at the problems of volcanoes, methane ice under the sea and solar activity! Manmade and animal pollutants are minuscule compared to these natural events…
@eagles980 P.S. When people start wanting to modify animals they consider a threat, how long do you believe it will take them to consider YOU a threat? This will lead to you needing to be “MODIFIED”! This will all be for the “greater good” of course…
@TORREY333 You do realize that almost all the food you eat on a daily basis is genetically modified, don't you? You aren't at the movies where nameless villains conspire to destroy humanity. Genetic modification isn't always a bad thing. I seriously doubt you eat nothing but free range cows and chicken, organic fruits or vegetables. Many are modified to produce larger more robust crops, resistance to insects and bacteria, weed out certain traits undesirable traits (breeding), etc.
@eagles980 Modifying fruits and vegetables to create more and better crops is incredibly different from modifying animals because of a perceived or FICTITIOUS THREAT! Like I said before, to focus on negligible manmade and animal pollutants without taking into consideration NATURAL EVENTS, is folly!
P.S. I never underestimate man’s inhumanity or arrogance, because it will only lead to disaster...
@TORREY333 We already have more cattle than there would be if they were raised in a completely natural environment, so the fact that they don't process methane gas well is exacerbated in a such a way that they cause pollution that wouldn't be there otherwise. Introducing a specific bacteria into the cows digestive system so that they wont produce as much methane would be extremely beneficial to the environment with almost no conceivable negative consequence. Take your conspiracies elsewhere.
@eagles980 Dinosaurs survived and thrived on this planet for hundreds of millions of years! Taking into consideration dinosaurs created a massive amount of methane gas on a daily basis while alive and after death. How do you expect people to believe cows are a major threat and that they need to be “modified”? We can agree that Human Beings should be good caretakers of the planet, but I will not blindly submit to you or anyone else's whims or irrational fears based on a hypothesis and conjecture!
Watching PeriodicVideos usually requires me to in the proper state of mind to ingest all the science awesomeness, so I usually wait until later in the day...
But with the title Wallabies and Methane, with out skipping a beat I clicked and enjoyed! Also the Roo boxing match was a great touch!
I wonder how one would go about replacing the bacteria culture in a cow stomach with another one... btw, Brady, I notice you got a lot of chromatic aberration with your lens! Not thinking about upgrading the camera equipment?
My son's 7th grade science class had to all make styrofoam ball molecular models to turn in this week. (The back of the classroom is now a colorful explosion of giant molecules. lol) He was assigned CO2. Given his 12 year old boy vast amusement with bodily sounds and functions, I told him, "She should've assigned you methane."
I can't wait to show him this video when he gets home from school this afternoon. lol
@volound I don't think he was talking altering DNA in any way. He just meant that he would introduce a bacteria similar to a wallaby into the stomach of a cow (in pill form, perhaps) to work with or replace the bacteria that cows naturally have.
i was suggesting that instead of regularly manually fixing the stomachs of each cow, we genetically engineer the cows to accommodate the new bacteria using wallaby DNA that has evolved/honed this ability.
e.g. genetically modifying squash or rice to create a strain that produces vitamin c instead of injecting each specimen with a syringe.
@volound I would assume that the injecting of bacteria (once or periodic) would be preferred to genetic modification of cow stomachs, as changing the DNA would create a new type of cow, whereas adding bacteria changes the methane output without altering the current DNA of cows. I'm sure the choice would depend on the difference in expense, the time to breed, and the possibility or impossibility of the consumption of beef and milk of DNA altered cows.
@MrWadlo well surely it would just be a matter of sonewhat large initial costs (which could be covered with grants, maybe) with a large return over a long period.
and i doubt the milk and beef would be affected. its not like we havent already moulded their genes through millennia of artificial selection.
Interesting... I will have to look up that paper.... Although more recient studies looking at CH4 production in cattle have shown that traditional models for estimating CH4 production from the ruminant greatly over estimate actual methane production. Swamps and wetlands are far greater methane producers than cattle.
So I was watching a video from one of your channels about famous scientist who owned a moose (I think it was Schrodinger, but I'm not sure) Do you know which video that was?
So one solution is to farm the wallabies for meat production. Far healthier form of meat to eat from a saturated fat point of view also.
f7ipper 2 weeks ago
Martin, with all do respect... i don't want to visualize gigantic vegan dinosaurs farting massive methane atmosphere's.
TheDigitalStone 2 weeks ago
boing. boing. boing.
lekoman 3 weeks ago
Rocko returns
Iniss132 3 weeks ago
Omg they're so adorable <3
adfgfds 1 month ago
WOW!!! COOL!!!
MediumNothinFull 1 month ago in playlist More videos from periodicvideos
wallabee poo.. doop dee doo....
MediumNothinFull 1 month ago in playlist More videos from periodicvideos
I'm from Brazil. Thank you for put in portuguese. I'm still learning English
palinetes75 2 months ago in playlist With Portuguese subtitles (Português)
2:38 *LUMBER LUMBER LUMBER HERE, LUMBER THERE*
ddr9248 3 months ago
I have had Wallaby and it tastes great..it very lean and you need a very hot pan to fry it on. It's best very pint and almost rare.. good eating..
SquirrelFromGradLife 4 months ago
All this is pointless, really. I'm quite sure that someday soon Australia will fall off the bottom of the earth and cease to be an issue or concern....
GetMeThere1 4 months ago
If cows have a difficult time digesting food, shouldn't they have evolved differently if it is a recessive trait?
frichikendz 4 months ago
@frichikendz cows didnt evolve on their own.... we evolved them for our needs, meat/milk.
moomilkboy 4 months ago 10
@moomilkboy i fucking agree man
Rockyroopam 4 months ago
@moomilkboy your username is so fitting!
cptorangutang2 1 week ago
@cptorangutang2 lol i made this account years ago when i was in middle school i have no idea what i was thinking
moomilkboy 1 week ago
They're so cute! I had no idea they were so trusting, I guess these ones are used to humans?
DeoMachina 4 months ago
I find it really ironic that we're trying to make cows more environmentally friendly.
Olhado256 4 months ago 2
How would the cow's metabolism deal with the succinic acid?
St00sh13 4 months ago
Do wallabies produce more methane than cows, or do wallabies produce more methane than cows per capita? That's quite a huge factor you left out of your statistics
itsMinuteMaid 4 months ago
I have only one question, before switching to wallabies from cows; can you make jerky from wallabies?
ninjaswordtothehead 4 months ago
MMMmmm... giant rat meat (•‿•)
forbiddenfoe 4 months ago
No. Wait why don't we... PUT A GLASS ORB AROUND THE COWS ASS XD fuel for food!
UltraDrago2000 4 months ago
Or we could farm wallabies and eat them instead maybe and use goat milk.... Lol instead of replacing damn bacterea and molecules and shit haha
UltraDrago2000 4 months ago
this professor is an inspiration
cooROPyoBODY 4 months ago in playlist More videos from periodicvideos
I think we know where dragons come from now. But seriously dinos would produce an absurd amount of methane.
525047 4 months ago
Cool hair bro.
livinglegend1187 4 months ago
Maybe the solution is not eating meat.
Go Vegan!
Ciweman 4 months ago
@Ciweman I don't know one vegan who doesn't look like a famine victim. Eating a moderate amount of meat is a more practicable solution.
aluisious 4 months ago
@aluisious I have no health issues and I'm a really active person, I run every two days and the rest of the days I lift weight and I'm vegan, and belive me, I don't look like a famine victim hehehe, and I live in Chile where you can't find so easily vegan stuff. Look up for Robert Cheeke and you'll see ;)
Ciweman 4 months ago
The end joke was great :D
Demoman42 4 months ago
Aw man this guy was in Australia and I didn't get to buy him a beer? :(
PelicanGodOfJupiter 4 months ago
wallabies suck, couldnt even beat the all blacks!
Typho0n86 4 months ago
Wallaby darned! I didn't know that.
EurekaScienceLab 4 months ago
Will cows get on their hind legs and start hopping?
Kurtlane 4 months ago
mfw the professor is talking about lighting farts
stripesthebird 4 months ago
"...wallabies are more environmentally friendly than cows"
But they make strange tasting hamburgers ;)
denisfilming 4 months ago 2
"I can't imagine if anyone were smoking next to a dinosaur. Probably that's what dragons looked like." Haha xD
Chriskeaten 4 months ago 45
They're so cute!!
Oh btw
It would have been more funny if prof. slughorn called Ron as Wallabie, Than Weasel bee .
josyula547 4 months ago
Man made global warming is a myth. A sham created to enforce carbon taxes. The earth's atmosphere has literally had a 1000 times more carbon dioxide in it then it does now and yet it still had an ice age. The SUN!!! is what determines the warming or cooling of the planet. Don't be a shill of the globalists. Since your in Australia why don't you ask how there carbon tax went over?
hempseed57 4 months ago
@hempseed57 Need an aluminum hat? I can sell you one for $20. It'll protect you from the government reading your mind.
Rationalist411 4 months ago
@Rationalist411 You can crack jokes all you want but the truth is the truth. Whether you see it now or 20 years from now when you are a slave to the government paying all your money to carbon and V.A.T. tax. But you don't have to wait 20 years just look up 911 truth or the fast and furious scandel or the new Iran b.s. Your already on youtube so just look them up I personally like 911 snow towers cause its a very simple demonstration of Physics. Then try "American Dream". See the truth.
hempseed57 4 months ago
@hempseed57 Yeah... While you're at it, look up illuminati, masons, knights templar, the protocols of the elders of zion, alien abductions, holocaust denial, loch-ness, and most importantly the Reptilians! The truth is out there! And it's all very easy to understand.. that's how you know it's the truth! All this complicated science talk and so-called peer-reviewed literature by so-called experts is just BS made-up to hide the truth.. that's why its so complex no-ne can understand it!
antonc81 4 months ago
@antonc81 lol best post ever
Sachaztan 3 months ago
I like the channel, but I think the boxing kangaroos are probably one of the highlights here, you should put boxing kangaroos every month or so in a random video just to see if anyone notices the awesomeness
BerfonesTheMighty 4 months ago
why not just stick a pipe in the cows back-end for the methane, store it for energy.
johntrevy 4 months ago
Isnt it ironic that in killing cows, we increase their numbers?
shoottherunner8008 4 months ago
Hahaha I laughed when you said that's probably what dragons looked like xD
jony3550 4 months ago
Metabolic and ecological diagrams are really complicated - a different level of science. It's nice to see a chemist standing in awe of them. But for goodness' sake, let's not eat wallabies!
xlrv1 4 months ago
The dragon theory at the end: genious ;)
BADtimmay 4 months ago
good idea, those wallabies look delicious
quaxk 4 months ago
forget the chemistry, those are cute.
sean918 4 months ago
If we captured all the methane cows make. I bet we could power thousands of cities.
Minecrafter2133 4 months ago
cows dont eat grass anymore lol
dicekar 4 months ago
@dicekar
They do in countries other then the US
K0ester 4 months ago
with that explanation of dinosaurs and dragons, i know have a professional proof that dragons and dinosaurs existed, now to write my paper about this
woodesroger 5 months ago
How about you guys just stop eating meat
itsMinuteMaid 5 months ago
@periodicvideos We (your captive audience) trust that your research into this subject paper was purely scientific and not at all biased by this subset of cuteness within the animal kingdom.
Yours turly,
Mr. Peers Review
P.S. We eagerly anticipate your future videos on the effect of wuv on fwuffy bunnies. Smooochies! xx
TableWolfMusic 5 months ago
so wait.. we should not eat cows anymore but insted slaughter young cute wallabies.... ight
beeftothetaco123 5 months ago
Do the wallabies absorb the succinate? IIRC, it is useful in the metabolic process. The citric acid cycle I believe.
Surtak 5 months ago
I think, If you smoke near a Dinosaur's tail maybe it will blow up like a bomb.... :-)
dgfia 5 months ago
Dragon's, really? awesome!
captaincough 5 months ago
Wallabies are absolutely adorable! -3
Khaielaash94 5 months ago
Hahaha dragons ^^
aurestest 5 months ago
Don't forget that for all the methane that the poor cows are being tut-tutted about, they are still entirely carbon-neutral (unlike cars). The methane has come from the biomass in the grass, which in turn has come from carbon dioxide in the air via photosynthesis. All part of the carbon cycle. Hmmm hang on though- methane is a worse greenhouse gas than CO2.. Bloody cows!!
Tossphate 5 months ago
Perhaps we need to start cross-breeding wallaby's & cows???!?!!!!?
Anamnesia 5 months ago
ROCKO!!
MadPuppets1 5 months ago in playlist More videos from periodicvideos
I saw you echidna! I know your disgusting secrets you freak of nature!
killroyfubar 5 months ago 2
I saw an echidna at 2:38!
Kargoneth 5 months ago
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OpiatedBliss 5 months ago
I'm a light meat eater. Most of the time I eat vegetables, grain, and fruits, but once of month, I treat myself to a beef sandwich.
BYMYSYD 5 months ago
@BYMYSYD
congrats
OpiatedBliss 5 months ago
Also, Indians have cows they don't eat...
KeyManDan 5 months ago
Got ya prof, kill all cows, cultivate wallabies for food!
KeyManDan 5 months ago 2
Please don't do anything to the cows digestive tracts. Our food is already messed up enough. The real problem is we are consuming way more meat than we're supposed to or need to, and that alone is causing a pile of economic and social problems around the world.
calskin 5 months ago
Dragon fire is from methane, gotcha
shaurz 5 months ago
i want a baby wallaby as a pet..
cr0ss0ut 5 months ago
cool i like those animals
djscottdog1 5 months ago
Wallabies produce less methane than cows, people are eating more meat so that means more cows which means more methane. Solution: people should eat wallabies instead of cows.
wpaxton 5 months ago 82
@wpaxton but you need more wallabie than cows to feed to population
geurgeury 5 months ago
@geurgeury It's a fair trade off.
wpaxton 5 months ago
@wpaxton people do eat wallabies, it's just not as popular as beef
Level84 5 months ago
@wpaxton You would need to eat more than 5 Wallabies to equal one cow. That means eating Wallabies would make more methane gas.
boldger13 5 months ago
@boldger13 Actually he means 5 to 1 by the amount of feed taken in not 5 wallabies make the methane of 1 cow but 1 pound of grass taken in by a wallabie in makes 1/5th of what a cow would make out of it.
SexualTyrannosausage 5 months ago
Look! The professor is not waving his hands all around! I think he really wanted to though.
boldger13 5 months ago
@wpaxton now that's good comedy! thanks!
ArtificialEntity 5 months ago
@wpaxton But then wallabies are much smaller in size, which means to produce the same amount of meat you would need a lot of wallabies which would mean that the total amount of methane produced for the same amount of meat would be higher if you ate wallaby instead of cow.
howardtong1324 4 months ago
@wpaxton Actually everything you just said applies to kangaroos, which have more usable meat, I believe.
Ichvyenichalster 4 months ago
@wpaxton or just not eating meat ...
maankindj 4 months ago 2
@wpaxton Wouldnt really help cuz we would need about 50 times more wallabies then cows in order to have enough meat to actually sell An besides who can eat a cut little wallaby
hawk151515 4 months ago
I remember the cows crossing the sidewalk from the joke about physicists! Haha
Yourveryking 5 months ago
Squee at 4:14! I wants it!
Chefianf 5 months ago
Going through video, brilliant as ever
Get to 2:39
Have to replay the echidna about ten times, its so awesome
Lose train of thought
Watch whole video again, brilliant again
Keep it comin'
888Xenon 5 months ago
Thumbs up for Dragons
DerEngelDesTodes 5 months ago
Rocko!
premiumlager7 5 months ago
I believe science should respect nature more than it does, judging mother earth's wisdom as bad, on how she stablished equilibrium in the biosphere must be a mistake. Just because we unbalance this delicate world with our lack of common sense and our desire for an easy life with comodities and pleasures, we shouldn't think we can fix it by hacking life forms like this. I think every mistake we make is like every bit of entrophy created: it cannot be reversed.
0Sebek0 5 months ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Lord Monckton for president! Check infowars for real info about the climate scam and the CO2 taxes to the banksters.
kemirockarfett 5 months ago
@kemirockarfett Just about everything Monckton has claimed has been very very thoroughly debunked by Potholer54 and many other reputable YouTubers and scientists, hailing his name around a science oriented channel like this one is a dangerous thing to be doing.
godulous 5 months ago 27
@godulous yes and everybody is very very agreed on that CO2 tax to Rockefeller and Rotshild Exchange and deindustrialisation is not the road to follow even if you very left wing extremist wants a Pol Pot regime in a new era.
kemirockarfett 5 months ago
@godulous Oh yeah, real dangerous./sarcasm
dannywithnoodles 5 months ago
@kemirockarfett Why would you want someone who makes a living spouting lie after lie as president?
President of what by the way? This is an English youtube channel after all.
And yes, while I agree CO2 taxes are a stupid thing (they wont have any effect on pollution and are only intended to make the government even more money) there is no such thing as a "climate scam".
passwordresetisbroke 4 months ago
o.O if there are more and more and more people eating meat, how would the amount of cows in the world be going up...........?
neveranythingtodoXD 5 months ago
@neveranythingtodoXD
Farmers produce more cows than they used to because they can sell more of them. If each minute one cow is in existence is a cow-minute, there are more cow-minutes now then there used to be.
axelasdf 4 months ago
He's solved the mystery! Dragons were actually belching dinosaurs all along!
ustoledmysammich 5 months ago
Omnomnomnomnom
Kittaiii 5 months ago
I was wondering that since the bacteria and the cow live symbiotically, whether perhaps they have co-evolved together and that perhaps there may be factors un known yet which may mean that the cows can only use their bacteria to digest grass and hence reject the wallaby derived bacteria. Does anyone have an answer to this hypothesis?
paddyl888 5 months ago
Perhaps we should be raising and eating wallabies. I wonder if they're yummy?
subach 5 months ago
Luckely, I don't smoke. But now I at least know that if I ever start, I shouldn't do it next to large herbivores like cows :p
FHomeBrew 5 months ago
That has got to be the most EPIC Brit-fro I have ever seen!!!!!!
Boffin power!!
2degucitas 5 months ago
Hmmmm Dragons are just burping dinosaurs XD
THEkidYOUallKNOW24 5 months ago 3
We clearly need to cross-breed cows and wallabies. That'd be an interesting experiment.
davedupplaw 5 months ago
Lolololololol dragon dinosaurs
danx033 5 months ago
What happens to the succinic acid after it is excreted? Do soil bacteria turn it into methane?
njimko23 5 months ago
"probly thats what dragons look like" lmao thats hilarious!
ironlionkalo 5 months ago
Succinic acid in a bottle labelled 'AnalaR'!!
imakingprawnok 5 months ago
5 people think global warming is a lie.
prabhatpalpal 5 months ago
There's goes my idea of mass transit via cows...
grndmstrjoe 5 months ago
Rocco's Modern Life!
Jiddy12345 5 months ago
We need to keep the professor away from matches and Wallabies!
MrValzen 5 months ago
Wallabie milk??
19Tranc3r92 5 months ago
If we're going to modify cows, I'd rather modify them so they crap money.
theverbalrelease 5 months ago
WE NEED TO STOP EATING COWS AND START EATING WALLABIES
wafflethug 5 months ago
Now i finally know why dinosaurs disappear: they started to smoke!
1stfreestuff 5 months ago
so cute!!!!
zuppers 5 months ago
I want a ringtone with the professor saying "Wallabie". I think it's hilarious.
hendrikwiersma 5 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
...imagine floating on your sail boat smoking a spliff over the Bermuda triangle when a hydrate nodual sublimes and out gases
~or doing the same thing in your blimp when a volcanic eruption out-gasses all kinds of green house gasses,
=if only they could tax that and the cosmic rays induction heating & invest the proceeds into environment study & survival adaptability and not the carbon exchange :)
docatomics 5 months ago 2
Mhhhhhhh... they are small and they eat grass. Do anyone want a used lawnmower? ^^
Morkvonork 5 months ago
You really like animals :)
Nice ;)
tibby499 5 months ago
Kangaroos and wallabies are cute and all but some wild ones have the inclination to to kick the crap outta people.
tubester4567 5 months ago
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docatomics 5 months ago
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docatomics 5 months ago
Does anything "eat" methane?
Craydon 5 months ago
So does that mean we should start herding wallabies and make wallaby burgers and steak?
Challenge accepted
RLSanji 5 months ago
So you want to modify cows in order to modify Earth’s climate? Are you INSANE! The Earth’s climate is continuously changing and modifying cows to change the weather is ludicrous. This planet and Human Beings will survive, without “IRRATIONAL MODIFICATIONS”! So get a grip on LOGIC and stick to useful science...
TORREY333 5 months ago
@TORREY333 NO!
jakeedmans 5 months ago
@TORREY333 You do realize that the domestication of cows into animal we all know and love today is a modification in and of itself, don't you. Selectively breeding cows in such a way that would prevent them from using methane in such an inefficient and wasteful manner that pollutes our environment is anything but a useless application of science. When rainforests are chopped down, do you say "mother nature always finds a way to survive" or would you support replanting and recycling?
eagles980 5 months ago
@eagles980 I believe Human Beings should be good stewards of the planet, but I DO NOT believe we can enhance nature in this period of are evolution! Those who believe that they can CONTROL nature through modifying cows are either naive or insane. Because they are NOT looking realistically at the problems of volcanoes, methane ice under the sea and solar activity! Manmade and animal pollutants are minuscule compared to these natural events…
TORREY333 5 months ago
@eagles980 P.S. When people start wanting to modify animals they consider a threat, how long do you believe it will take them to consider YOU a threat? This will lead to you needing to be “MODIFIED”! This will all be for the “greater good” of course…
TORREY333 5 months ago
@TORREY333 You do realize that almost all the food you eat on a daily basis is genetically modified, don't you? You aren't at the movies where nameless villains conspire to destroy humanity. Genetic modification isn't always a bad thing. I seriously doubt you eat nothing but free range cows and chicken, organic fruits or vegetables. Many are modified to produce larger more robust crops, resistance to insects and bacteria, weed out certain traits undesirable traits (breeding), etc.
eagles980 5 months ago
@eagles980 Modifying fruits and vegetables to create more and better crops is incredibly different from modifying animals because of a perceived or FICTITIOUS THREAT! Like I said before, to focus on negligible manmade and animal pollutants without taking into consideration NATURAL EVENTS, is folly!
P.S. I never underestimate man’s inhumanity or arrogance, because it will only lead to disaster...
TORREY333 5 months ago
@TORREY333 We already have more cattle than there would be if they were raised in a completely natural environment, so the fact that they don't process methane gas well is exacerbated in a such a way that they cause pollution that wouldn't be there otherwise. Introducing a specific bacteria into the cows digestive system so that they wont produce as much methane would be extremely beneficial to the environment with almost no conceivable negative consequence. Take your conspiracies elsewhere.
eagles980 4 months ago
@eagles980 Dinosaurs survived and thrived on this planet for hundreds of millions of years! Taking into consideration dinosaurs created a massive amount of methane gas on a daily basis while alive and after death. How do you expect people to believe cows are a major threat and that they need to be “modified”? We can agree that Human Beings should be good caretakers of the planet, but I will not blindly submit to you or anyone else's whims or irrational fears based on a hypothesis and conjecture!
TORREY333 4 months ago
Beware the fartty cows!!!
2degucitas 5 months ago 2
Nasty man, you're desperate.
Too proud to eat Skippy, you strive to remediate your cow burger.
Abos were bad enough.
VoxNeruda 5 months ago
if cows can't break down organic molecules such as methane are there any articles that depict the effects of succinic acid in a cows body?
retsilla88 5 months ago
Would a wallaby baby be a wallababy? :D I wanna pet that thing.
JonatanGronoset 5 months ago
Sorry, Professor, but to test if a wallaby really belches out methane by using a MATCH is a pretty gory thing, don't you think so, too?
ThatGuyFromAustria 5 months ago
Me thane, you no thane.
Darw1n1st 5 months ago
Sooo anybody up for wallabies burger?
HerrCaZini 5 months ago
5:30 professor telling fossil fart joke :D
Yndin 5 months ago
@Yndin and then I've remembered belching isn't farting xD still funny.
Yndin 5 months ago
Maybe we should eat wallabies instead of cows?
nononsenseinrational 5 months ago
So dragons are really just smoking dinosaurs.
tomvanuijen 5 months ago
Watching PeriodicVideos usually requires me to in the proper state of mind to ingest all the science awesomeness, so I usually wait until later in the day...
But with the title Wallabies and Methane, with out skipping a beat I clicked and enjoyed! Also the Roo boxing match was a great touch!
Keep up the great work!
cabrita309 5 months ago
I'd like to have those bacteria to make my farts smell better.
noobenstein 5 months ago
I wonder how one would go about replacing the bacteria culture in a cow stomach with another one... btw, Brady, I notice you got a lot of chromatic aberration with your lens! Not thinking about upgrading the camera equipment?
Shmilli 5 months ago
My son's 7th grade science class had to all make styrofoam ball molecular models to turn in this week. (The back of the classroom is now a colorful explosion of giant molecules. lol) He was assigned CO2. Given his 12 year old boy vast amusement with bodily sounds and functions, I told him, "She should've assigned you methane."
I can't wait to show him this video when he gets home from school this afternoon. lol
pepsibookcat 5 months ago
Great video.
WeaselWJ 5 months ago
i say we splice wallaby DNA with cow DNA.
volound 5 months ago
@volound I don't think he was talking altering DNA in any way. He just meant that he would introduce a bacteria similar to a wallaby into the stomach of a cow (in pill form, perhaps) to work with or replace the bacteria that cows naturally have.
MrWadlo 5 months ago
@MrWadlo yeah i know he wasnt.
i was suggesting that instead of regularly manually fixing the stomachs of each cow, we genetically engineer the cows to accommodate the new bacteria using wallaby DNA that has evolved/honed this ability.
e.g. genetically modifying squash or rice to create a strain that produces vitamin c instead of injecting each specimen with a syringe.
volound 5 months ago
@volound I would assume that the injecting of bacteria (once or periodic) would be preferred to genetic modification of cow stomachs, as changing the DNA would create a new type of cow, whereas adding bacteria changes the methane output without altering the current DNA of cows. I'm sure the choice would depend on the difference in expense, the time to breed, and the possibility or impossibility of the consumption of beef and milk of DNA altered cows.
MrWadlo 5 months ago
@MrWadlo well surely it would just be a matter of sonewhat large initial costs (which could be covered with grants, maybe) with a large return over a long period.
and i doubt the milk and beef would be affected. its not like we havent already moulded their genes through millennia of artificial selection.
volound 5 months ago
"Probably that's what dragons looked like"
Oh god, I laughed so hard at that.
sciencoking 5 months ago 4
Coming soon to a restaurant near you, Wallabies!
SIC66SIC66 5 months ago
So, should we start eating Wallabies instead of cows? I never know who the right enemy animal is!
integralmath 5 months ago
Interesting... I will have to look up that paper.... Although more recient studies looking at CH4 production in cattle have shown that traditional models for estimating CH4 production from the ruminant greatly over estimate actual methane production. Swamps and wetlands are far greater methane producers than cattle.
theoneintheyellowhat 5 months ago
So I was watching a video from one of your channels about famous scientist who owned a moose (I think it was Schrodinger, but I'm not sure) Do you know which video that was?
Dirtboy101 5 months ago
Dinosaurs. NO!, Digestersaurs
Pianoguy32 5 months ago
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dan007iel 5 months ago
LOL @ the dragon comment at the end of the clip :P
gulllars 5 months ago 41
Somehow that would make Jurassic Park an even better movie if they started to ignite the dinosaurs, at least the herbivorous ones.
IcEye89 5 months ago 3